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On your side? Against who?!
by tsunamifury 12y ago
On your side? Against who?!
- JshWright 12y agoDon't read too much into that... He just meant that Law/Fire/EMS are not on different sides. Saying that people are not on different sides does not imply another side even exists in the first place. The fact is that emergency responders _do_ end up getting attacked/assaulted/etc on a surprisingly regular basis. I can't remember the last time I didn't get at least verbally assaulted by someone at least once a week. Physical confrontations are all too common, and having law enforcement there when someone takes a swing at you is a very helpful thing... While there doesn't have to be two sides, that doesn't stop some idiots from choosing to make up their own side... When that happens, I'm glad to have someone with a taser and a gun on my 'side'.
- FireBeyond 12y agoIt's not necessarily a 'bad' thing. It's an acknowledgment that we're often "forced" to be in situations with aggressive people where cops have defense mechanisms, tools, and we only have our wits. It's a "I've got your back" thing, not in the 'thin blue line' sense, but more "You take a swing at me, I have a taser. You take a swing at the paramedic, you're going to jail."